Quotes
Believe those who are seeking the truth, doubt those who find it - Andre Gide
Not all those who wander are lost - J.R.R. Tolkein
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it is appeased by love. This is an eternal law - Gautama Siddartha Buddha
Never compete, create - Earl Nightingale
The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion-Socrates
You are one of the forces of nature - Jules Michelet
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup - Boris Pasternak
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick'd out of ten thousand - William Shakespeare
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality - Albert Einstein
Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom - Hermann Hesse
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music - Aldous Huxley
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people - Miles Franklin
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow - Aesop
Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours - Richard Bach
Self reflection is the school of wisdom - Baltasar Gracian
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue - Henry David Thoreau
I now want to know all things under the sun, and the moon, too. For all things are beautiful in themselves, and become more beautiful when known to man. Knowledge is Life with wings - Kahlil Gibran
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity - Dale Carnegie
The sun will set without thy assistance - The Talmud
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education - John Ruskin
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware - Henry Miller
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself - Aldous Huxley
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy - Dean Inge
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us - Adlai Stevenson
MAN. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be - Ambrose Bierce
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth - Mahatma Gandhi
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child - Chinese Proverb
There is but one morality, as there is but one geometry - Voltaire
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers - Plato
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful - Samuel Johnson
They know enough who know how to learn - Henry Adams
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience - Albert Einstein
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence - Bertrand Russell
We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time - T.S. Eliot
I have no problem with Christ, but in my experiences Christians are rarely Christ like - Dalai Llama
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so - Earl of Chesterfield
You choose your thoughts - Louise L. Hay
I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness, light persists. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both natural and spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism - Albert Einstein
The first proof of a well ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself - Seneca
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely - Jorge Luis Borges